Re: [UX][DESIGN EXPLORATION] - flat application icons

2013-07-07 Thread Kevin Grignon
I think we should explore the icons with and without the gulls. Let's see what the feasible options look like before we drive towards a single solution. Kevin On Jul 7, 2013, at 5:09 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 7 July 2013 22:56, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Samer

Re: [UX][DESIGN EXPLORATION] - flat application icons

2013-07-06 Thread Kevin Grignon
at 5:47 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, I've updated my flat application icons design exploration to show the icons adjacent to the new flat logo. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence

[UX][DESIGN EXPLORATION] - flat application icons

2013-06-27 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello all, I've updated my flat application icons design exploration to show the icons adjacent to the new flat logo. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Desktop+Icons Scroll to end of page to see the flat icons. Thoughts? Regards, Kevin

Re: AOO 4.0 Logo: We're not done yet!

2013-06-26 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, I saved the file in Illustrator. Odd it is not loading. I've prepare all the remaining graphics. See: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Product+Logo+Use for updated owner and status. From what I can tell, all relevant graphics are done. I'm at the airport right

Re: AOO 4.0 Logo: We're not done yet!

2013-06-24 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - see comments inline. On Jun 24, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Am Freitag, 21. Juni 2013 um 18:28 schrieb Kay Schenk: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: In case

Re: Logo next steps

2013-06-10 Thread Kevin Grignon
I propose we take a final pass to prepare the logo for production. The vector artwork should be converted curves, the ff elements need to be combined, and some font kerning adjusted. Then we should document the logo on the AOO UX wiki. Who is preparing all the new graphics? Kevin On Jun

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, I propose we get feedback on second round and identify what aspects of each we like. Let's converge on a design which reflects the best if each. Regards, Kevin On May 28, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like we are retaining almost the current

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

2013-05-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
I like the darker font colour for Apache, but prefer all caps as it supports a more balanced layout. The descender or long leg of the Apache letter p when rendered in lowercase causes tension as it stabs the openOffice logo type. Thoughts? Kevin On May 28, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Kadal Amutham

Re: Results of the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hi Rob, Attached for your consideration is my refined logo submission. My refined logo includes refinements to the gulls/pages emphasis, font, font weight, font kerning, and layout. For the orb and gulls, I've emphasized the gulls curves to be more representative of book pages, and generally

Re: Results of the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
Coolio. Will upload. On May 16, 2013, at 1:45 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, Attached for your consideration is my refined logo submission. Hi Kevin, I'm looking forward to seeing your

Re: Handlers Drawing - Desing of the nodes.

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
Alan, What issues are you looking to address in your node enhancements? Ideally, we should seek a unified visual language for object selection all editors. Perhaps this is great opportunity to explore. Thoughts? Regards, Kevin On May 16, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Alan Eduardo Puc Pech

Re: Critique of the Help/About box

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - see comments at base On May 10, 2013, at 1:40 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 05/09/2013 07:33 PM, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:21:49PM +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 05/09/2013 06:34 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: I wonder if we can make this be

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-14 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, Sorry, i haven't had cycles to work on this. Please consider these votes a selection of direction as final adjustments will need to be made to the graphics and text. It appears there is interest in a flat treatment. Other than that, palette, fonts and relation ship to app icons

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-14 Thread Kevin Grignon
If we pursue flat, let's explore some modifications to the pages (gulls). In my flat submission I have made the gulls more predominant which broader strikes and deeper arcs. Also, we should see the proposals with drop shadows as key OS apply one. The wingtip which extends off the orb would

Re: Do we need a survey mechanism?

2013-03-19 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG02 - see comments inline On Mar 19, 2013, at 6:11 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: KG01 - see comments inline. On Mar 18, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 17

Re: Do we need a survey mechanism?

2013-03-17 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - see comments inline. On Mar 18, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:10 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/17 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com In light of our recent start on Strategic Planning, is it worthwhile to investigate some

Re: AOO logo for special purposes?

2013-03-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
There is a logo proposal for an updated logo which actually has an arrow over the orb. Check out the AOO 4.0 logo proposals on the marketing wiki. Kevin. On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: We've done some special logo variation. For example, Drew made

Re: I Volunteer

2013-02-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
Augustus, We also have many ux design explorations ready to go. See the UX page on wiki. Reach out to me for more info. Regards, Kevin On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Augustus - Aparanji Fine Arts wrote: I'm a graduate of Photography (BFA) from

Re: Helping with development

2013-02-27 Thread Kevin Grignon
Gerek, Thanks for generous offer. Yes there are many open visual design and user experience design tasks. We are currently exiting a branding refresh. See : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+Refresh+Project There is also a design task backlog

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-02-26 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: My pleasure. On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:26 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Grignon if you have spare time and experience in the area of design language and messaging your help would be really

Re: Two ideas for supporting images as well as text links in announcement area of website

2013-02-26 Thread Kevin Grignon
And... We could create a community tab in the new side bar to promote similiar outreach messaging. On Feb 15, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I'd like to run this by as an idea. Today, the

Re: Sidebar color scheme survey

2013-02-25 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - see comments inline. On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Am 21.02.2013 16:26, schrieb Regina Henschel: Hi, Xin Li schrieb: [..] So I create a light-weight gray proposal based on the option we discussed before.I use a light grey on the side bar and

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-02-24 Thread Kevin Grignon
My pleasure. On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:26 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Grignon if you have spare time and experience in the area of design language and messaging your help would be really appreciated as I have limited experience in this area. If you have a cwiki account, I

Re: Sidebar color scheme survey

2013-02-08 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: KG 01 On Feb 8, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org

Re: Sidebar color scheme survey

2013-02-07 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG 01 On Feb 8, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 29/01/2013 Andre Fischer wrote: I would like to ask you to either look at the mockups at [1] or try the developer builds [2] and tell me what

Re: [bikeshed] I like blue titles.

2013-02-07 Thread Kevin Grignon
If I understand correctly, the goal is to emphasize the message and links to drive action. Robs suggestion to create a compelling graphic makes sense. Beyond font colour, we can use more info design and visual design to call attention to the message. Regards, Kevin On Feb 2, 2013, at

Re: Sidebar color scheme survey

2013-01-29 Thread Kevin Grignon
Andre, This is looking really great. Re: colour An initial goal for the sidebar is to compliment, but not compete with of distract users from the canvas. In an effort to minimize UI noise and help keep the focus on the editor canvas - the work - I recommend we adopt a hybrid of proposal 1

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-17 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, I see a shift in how people capture and manage content. We need to make it easy for people to get ideas into the tools, help them organize the content, make it look the way they want and share the content. Managing files is not an enjoyable part of this story. Evernote's

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Apache OpenOffice 4 logo proposals...

2012-12-22 Thread Kevin Grignon
Michael, Great work. Design is very iterative. Keep pushing! Using the design explorations is a great way to stimulate a conversation which can help us better understand the requirements. Perhaps we could harvest the criteria for success in the thread and capture in the wiki Then we can

Re: [proposal] Adopt palette to Symphony palette partially

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Dec 20, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: Hi List, Talking about palettes is always difficult - at the end, it's a question of taste. Nonetheless, we need a palette which is by default installed with the office. You all know the current one (for years

Re: [proposal] Adopt palette to Symphony palette partially

2012-12-20 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Dec 20, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: Hi Kevin, On 20.12.2012 12:01, Kevin Grignon wrote: snip Armin, Great enhancement. In fact this is in the UX backlog. Yes, it is, but we need to discuss it and someone has to do it ;-) Let's use

Re: Stickers AOO

2012-12-14 Thread Kevin Grignon
Perhaps we could align with 4.0 Release? On Dec 14, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Albino Biasutti Neto bin...@apache.org wrote: Hi 2012/12/10 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com: yes, something new. The color scheme is not right for what we have now, nor is the name...volunteer artists? Volunteers to

Re: [proposal]: Enhance visualisation of Handles

2012-12-13 Thread Kevin Grignon
Armin, Could you share a screen cap? Any chance of including rotation, shear and skew? Kevin On Dec 13, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: Hi List, On 11.12.2012 14:15, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi List, I took the time and started to look technically

Re: Sidebar

2012-12-04 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: On 04.12.2012 03:32, Dali Liu wrote: Hi Andre, I am planning to merger a extension to sidebar model, I would like to verify the implementation of the sidebar. Will I start from here:

Re: Gallery extension from Symphony ressources

2012-12-02 Thread Kevin Grignon
Agreed. Homepage elements are web 1.0. Let's remove them. Kevin On Dec 1, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 11/30/2012 01:50 PM, schrieb Armin Le Grand: Hi List, to keep you up-to date (also in #121407#): I have the first working version. Added themes are:

Re: [UX] Feedback wanted - Share your task pane experiences

2012-11-29 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:33 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/29 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com Hello All, In support of the AOO .next release, I have been exploring the UI design for incorporating the Lotus Symphony sidebar in AOO. This sidebar will provide

[UX] Design Exploration - Dockable Task Pane User Interface Design

2012-11-29 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, I've been exploring user interface design for the dockable task panes. I've prepared a mockup that illustrates the task pane headers, section headers and tab interaction. See:

Re: Gallery extension from Symphony ressources

2012-11-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/27 Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de Am 11/26/2012 02:44 PM, schrieb Armin Le Grand: Hi List, I took a closer look at Symphony's checked in ressources concerning the gallery. There are quite some nice

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
a try for its UI.(http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home) On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote: Hi Kevin, Kevin Grignon schrieb: Hello All, I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-28 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - see comments inline On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Xin Li lxnice...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that there are two position and size for different object, is that means we should have different content design for different object type? 2012/11/26 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon

[UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task pane. I've analyzed the current content in both LS and AOO, and captured some thoughts on future design direction. See:

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
suggest we start from the Content Properties and ClipArt, and add more release by release. - Shenfeng (Simon) 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com Hello All, I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task pane. I've analyzed the current content

Re: Templates

2012-11-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
Kori, We'd love your feedback on the templates. Does it meet your needs, anything missing? Regards, Kevin On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Hi Kori, Our templates website is here: http://templates.openoffice.org/ If you type recipe in the search box

Re: Helping

2012-11-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - See comments inline. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Ian C i...@amham.net wrote: Hi David, welcome aboard. Getting involved kind of depends on you and what you want to do. Development, testing, documentation, internationalisation, web site? KG01 - plus user interface design,

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com Hello All, I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task pane. I've analyzed the current content in both LS and AOO, and captured some

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-15 Thread Kevin Grignon
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com Hello All, I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task